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Pours a murky cranberry color with a 1 inch whitish red head that fades to a film on the top of the beer. Small spots of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smells of sour cherries, wood, and some funk/must. For being a wild ale the smell is not as potent as I was expecting. Taste is of slightly sour cherries, biscuits, and wood. There is an odd medicinal/herbal bitterness with each sip. This beer seems to have a low level of carbonation with a slightly thick mouthfeel. Overall, this is a pretty average wild ale. I bought this in CO since I have never seen this one in CA. I am glad I got to try it but I wouldn't get it again.

so they apparently serve this on nitro now, how weird is that. a fruited wild on nitro, maybe the first one i have ever seen, had to try it. i never had the bottle version, so it will not be possible to make a comparison. its lovely though in the glass, deep ruby red and perfectly clear with one inch of white head on it thick as wedding cake frosting. it smells sweet and acidic at the same time, the fruit may be a little medicinal here, but it seems to work. what i dont get is the sourness in the flavor, there is acidity there, but not really funky and lactic like the best of them, this is a different type of kriek for sure, so dont go looking for the classics. it has a neat flavor though, lots of cherry, more natural tasting than it smells, but still with more residual sugar than i like. creamy feel from the nitro though, and i think i like this serving format for a beer like this. it helps integrate the flavors and make it feel bigger, maybe thats where the acidity is lost. too sweet to drink a lot of, more weird woody funk would really help it i think, but how can you not try this on a nitro tap? same beer i assume...

The Kriek pours out as a red color with a fizzy pinkish white head. The smell has a faint sour aroma going on in it. There is also some cherry aromas too. The beer tastes a little tart not as sour as most Kriek's out there. The flavors are more refreshing and relaxed it seems. The pucker face factor on this brew isn't overly powerful. The mouthfeel is carbonated and fairly light.'not a bad brew, definitely a decent beer to try. Having all 3 was a real treat. I enjoyed the series and I'm looking very forward to trying the Stout they're working on!

American breweries are working very hard at how to make truly domestic lambics; figuring out which blend of indigionous wild yeasts to employ when considering Belgian-style sour ales. Sam Adam's American Kriek proves timid but formitable.

The beer opens with a mauve colored, soft haze with a delicate creme of foam. With good retention and a struggle to lace, the beer carries an authentic and classy appearance.

A mix of tart and sweet cherries dominate the nose, but not without the periphreal scents of lighter, sweeter breads, soft sweetness, and true malt character. A light note of vanilla and almond emits as the beer warms.

Cherry flavor continues dominance to taste- similar in fashion to Sam Adam's widely distributed Cherry Lambic. Medium tartness, but also with the pectin heavy flavors of cherry skins and pits. Soft confectioner's sugar sweetness is surpressed, allowing the tart cherry taste to command control. Light oak flavor further exacerbates the tanin flavor, but is softened by a background note of marzapan.

Medium bodied for a sour, the beer seems young and hasn't yet developed the fully attenuated dary tartness that's common in authentic Belgian sours. Fairly high in tanic astringency, and with more of a fruit derived acidity, the sides of the mouth really get a workout. Though clean and tart in finish, more intensity with true lactic and acetic sourness would be preferred.

I like to think of this beer as a sour with training wheels. Those looking to get into sour ales but find classic Belgian Lambics to be far too intense should acclimate with this variety where most of the sourness seems to come from the cherries and less from wild yeast.

Similar flavors. Syrupy and sweet with a natural but terribly cloying cherry flavor, it tastes like none of the sugars have fermented out of the cherry juice. There's a mild tartness but this is much more of a sweet fruit beer. Syrupy palate with a sweet finish. Not outright terrible, but really hard to completely enjoy due to the medicinal flavors and intense sweetness. Even taken as a fruit beer I really don't enjoy this, it's like a very clumsy and cloying version of New Glarus Belgian Red.

A: Pours a very slightly hazy dark garnet red in color with some hints of brown and significant amounts of visible carbonation. The beer has a two finger tall fizzy pink head that reduces to a very thin film covering the majority of the surface of the beer and a thin ring at the edges of the glass. Moderate amounts of lacing are observed.

S: Light to moderate aromas of tart and sweet cherries with an underlying hint of malts. There are some very light notes of vanilla and oak.

T: Similar to the smell, the taste is dominated by the flavors of cherries with both tartness and sweetness. There are also some light flavors of vanilla and oak. Not as much of the tartness as I would like.

M: Medium bodied with just slightly more than moderate amounts of carbonation.

O: Easy to drink and enjoyable but kind of immature for a sour/wild ale - it has not developed to have the complexity and sourness/tartness that I expect from the style. Not sure I would go out to find this one again but it was a good beer to have.

T: The taste starts out with sweet flavors of cherries and caramel followed by a hearty malt character for the style and some Belgian yeast breadiness. There’s a little bit of sourness that creeps in along with a mild hops presence. The after-taste is slightly tart.

D: A little tasty, goes down ok, not too filling, good kick, decent but seemingly toned down representation of style, it’s worth drinking for a while if you want a sour-style beer that isn’t as heavy on the sourness but overall it’s just an average beer.

Cloudy, ruby red color. Good start to the head but it settles to a half covered film of minute bubbles. Thus, no real lace, just some spots.

Smells like a cross between a Sweettart sourness and a children's aspirin. Rather appealing, but certainly not conventional.

Harsher attack of dry sourness--right up front on the tongue. The alcohol is also up front and more powerful than anticipated. The cherry is very sour but quite muted. There's a surprisingly sweet finish with a very quick finish and nearly no aftertaste. Good body.

Overall, this is an unusual beer that is worth trying just to experience the unusual flavors.